Lafayette Interiors history

The business works hard to retain as many shoppers as possible, through annual meetings with customers and strategies such as the well-known “3J” sale, created in 1958 to make excellent items of quality available at exceptionally low prices.

The school’s name was changed yet again in 1960 to the University of Southwestern Louisiana (USL), which had then grown to include a graduate school and six distinct colleges.

Trained to cook in FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps, Stanley Dwyer opened this downtown diner in 1965.

In 1969, a new shop for younger clients opened its doors on the other side of rue Mogador. “Club 20” carried cutting-edge fashion, music and drugstore products.

A decade later, under the auspices of CODOFIL, Balfa helped organize the Tribute to Cajun Music Festival in 1974.

Conceived in 1985 to revitalize the city’s moribund downtown corridor, following the oil industry crash earlier in the decade, Festival International has, from the beginning, recognized and celebrated Lafayette’s cultural and historical diversity.

In 1992, the Lafayette Natural History Museum and Planetarium, now known as the Lafayette Science Museum, relocated from Girard Park to the former Heymann’s Department Store.

A contemporary, mixed development of homes, apartments and condominiums, business offices, and retail shops that opened in 1999, the Village of River Ranch helped revitalize Lafayette’s south side.